Friday, January 5, 2018

sunny but still cold...

but not for long...
one more cold day and then the warm up starts...
could have a couple days of freezing rain/sleet...
will have to wait and see how warm it does get...

squirrel tracks...
they are everywhere!

a friend got this for me for Christmas...
the pray more, worry less clingy thingy...
love it...
put that up today...

another gift from Craig's girlfriend...
a salt lamp...
its supposed to take toxins from the air and a whole lot of other things...
it is sitting close to where I sit in the kitchen...

the "I can't wait for spring" tree...

the new furnace...
sitting in my living room!
it will go in when the snow melts...
they have to cut a hole in the roof...
we have a metal roof...
covered in snow and ice...
there's no way you could stand up up there...

and this is how we do afternoons...

its hard watching mom putter...

sending DH to Kroger tomorrow to stock up again...
kids will be coming for supper and bringing Dominos pizza with them...
I can order online and they pick it up and deliver!
its a win win for all of us...

looking forward to the day coming up in the 50s!
the 10 day outlook is so nice...

Prayers for all the ones who are in that crazy cyclone bomb!
saw photos and videos online...
I can't even image the ocean throwing ice chunks at you and flooding then freezing everything to the ground...
awful...
praying for no ice storm Sunday and Monday...

well, its about bedtime here...
have good Saturdays!

Thursday, January 4, 2018

last night and this morning...

we had snow flurries yesterday afternoon and then the sun popped out just before sundown...

love the cardinals...

our furnace came...
and DH had to pull it down the street with a 2 wheel cart...
the sent it on the largest semi they could find and it couldn't get to us...

this morning as the sun came up...
do birds sun themselves?
bitter cold out there...

but they are still alive!

feeding them daily...

been unChristmasing around here...
leaving wintery things up...

DH got a new party boombox for Christmas from the doggie down the street that he takes care of when the human there isn't home...
:)
we both enjoy the radio...
and he got some new CDs for Christmas...
we are blasting the winter blues away...
LOL
we will be able to put this on the deck in the spring while we are working out in the yard...
or just sitting around...
ready to get back out there!
have good days!

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

its amazing...

how in the coldest weather...

and in survival mode...

just how well all these critters get along...

side by side...

almost all of the time...

I've seen buffet lines get ugly over the last bit of mac and cheese...
:)

still super cold here...
the furnace is being delivered today...
not sure when its going in, but will be soon...
the old one is still working...
just not taking any more chances...
:)
DH took another day off to be here when they deliver it...
its 200 pounds and I ain't doing that !
have good days!

Monday, January 1, 2018

my word for 2018...

it didn't take me long to come up with one this year...
the word...

MORE

do more...
love more...
pray more...
give more...

more compassionate...
more flexible...
more reliable...
more understanding...

become more than I am today...

see more...
listen more...
more joyful...
more helping...

become more than I could ever imagine...

:)


Sunday, December 31, 2017

Happy New Year...

we are home and in for the night...
DH is watching tv and I am on my computer...
just waiting for 2017 to exit...
will probably be in bed asleep when it happens...
so here are the last photos of this year...
a starling fell asleep while hogging the feeder this morning...

and I got some wonderful shots of the male hairy woodpecker...

the female looks like him without the red...

hoping they do ok tonight and tomorrow...

doing some extra feeding for them...

wishing you a happy, healthy and magnificent 2018!